Abstract
This chapter explicates the concept of truth in terms of the notion of cognitive value. The explication proceeds at three interconnected levels of increasing concreteness. The first level is programmatic and exploratory. The aim at the first level of explication is to illuminate simultaneously the understanding of both the concept of truth and the notion of cognitive value by making use of the notion of cognitive value as the fundamental analytical tool in the explication of the concept of truth.1 The second level of explication is dialectical. At this level the aim is to reveal a blind spot in a broad range of contemporary views of the concept of truth. I will be arguing that neither deflationary nor inflationary views of the concept of truth assign cognitive value to directly specified truth attributions as they are intuitively understood. The third level of explication is substantive. At the third level, the aim is to explain what the cognitive value of directly specified truth attributions intuitively understood is. I will be arguing that directly specified truth attributions intuitively understood are partially constitutive of the epistemic advance made in critical reflective thinking.
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